Sedgwick County Sheriff Jeff Easter talked to county commissioners Tuesday about staffing issues with his commissioned deputies and detention deputies, and he says pay needs to be competitive to keep from losing staff to other law enforcement agencies. Easter told the commission during their weekly staff meeting that he is budgeted for 228 employees in the jail, and there are 110 vacancies, so the vacancy rate is 49 percent. He said recruiting efforts have produced few candidates and he is starting to lose commissioned deputies to communities like Maize and Derby.
Source: 101.3 KFDI
